We go along for years with no accidents at gun shows and then suddenly on "Gun Appreciation day" two events have accidents. Sounds a little suspicious to me. I strongly suspect Put up jobs by the dimwits. Expect more of this as they push their gun grabbing agenda.

Guns at gun shows are supposed to be, and usually are, unloaded. For two of them to have accidents in the same day speaks of deliberate carelessness on someone's part.

The country is on a gun buying spree. Every gun show in the US is over-packed with thousands more than usual. That there would be some small number of accidents among these hoardes is statistically likely.

[[That there would be some small number of accidents among these hoardes is statistically likely.]]

More peopel die from accidental electrocution in the homes than die at gunn shows, but hte left sensationalizes gun deaths? MaYBE THE LEFT SHOUDL COCNENTRATE ON BANNING ELECTRICITY INSTEAD as it’s much more deadly than gun show deaths

“411 people died from electrocutions in the US 2001 (US Consumer Product Safety”

One of the incidents was a removed magazine with one in the chamber. Is there any reason that they can not produce a weapon that will not fire without the magazine in place? I see that scenario far to much. It happened here in Utah this past summer where a brother shot his other brother dead.

The first link describes business as usual in the officially decreed gun-free zone that is the vacation wonderland of Chicago.

The second story details a couple of accidental gun discharges at gun shows by a bunch of stupid newbies to the gun world attempting to cash in during the Obama induced gun panic. Really, you can’t fix stupid with some people and Darwin awards apleanty will be given will all the gun novices now trying to cash in.

No mechanical safety feature will ever replace training and experience in proper firearms handling. The most basic safety training for semi-automatic arms is to know how to clear the action and know for certain that no round is chambered. More basic than that, for all arms, is to never point it at anything you don't intend to destroy much less point it and pull the trigger.

It wasn’t just two incidents, it was three separate incidents in NC, Ohio and Indiana. And yeah....it’s just a little too obviousm too pat and conveeeenient for the anti-gun leftist agenda for these incidents to be real accidents. I wonder if the idiots that shot themselves were paid well to do so.

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posted on 01/19/2013 11:11:05 PM PST
by XenaLee
(The only good commie is a dead commie.)

I remember this happened at a gun show in Louisville about five years back. Some idiot was bringing in a handgun that he'd ejected the magazine out of, but failed to clear the chamber.

It went off when he was removing it from the holster so the safety personnel could affix the security strip. The round struck the concrete floor and ricocheted up into the calf of the guy manning the ticket booth at the entrance.

I was about one hundred feet away, looking at a really nice 1911A1 when the round went off and just about everyone in the entire building (probably 20,000+) hit the floor.

There are plenty of autoloaders that have magazine safeties that do just what you say. I don’t care for the feature but it’s sposta be good for LEOs in the event of their weapon being taken from them they are supposed to be able to pop the mag out and disable the gun. The logic escapes me. As for the dead brother...too bad his brother is a moron.

I've been to the National Gun Day in Louisville numerous times (I plan on attending the first week of March) and that was the only time I've ever seen something like that happen. There were a couple of incidences of people fooling around with guns or acting stupid, but they were shut down very quickly and effectively by other attendees and/or booth owners.

Probably the scariest moment I've ever had involving a firearm was back in 1995-6 when I worked at a department store that sold old surplus military rifles. We were having a big sale on British Enfields so there were about three customers for each associate. I handed a rifle to this elderly gentleman so he could look it over and turned to ask the next customer what I could do for him. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted the first customer pull a .303 round out of his pocket, drop it in the chamber, and slam the bolt closed. Heart Attack!!! He was spinning that rifle all over the place, slapping it and wiggling parts to make sure it was nice and tight, all while it had a live round in the chamber. It seemed like an eternity, but was probably only two or three seconds, before I was able to duck over, grab the gun from his, eject the round, and hand it back to him, telling him to look at it that way. I honestly don't think that anyone else in the department even saw what he'd done, but that left me with a pretty good case of the shakes.

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